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>>46563597
Only when ZUN feels like it, though. She only gets to know stuff when it's convenient for exposition.
Really, she's kind of an infuriating character in how much of her personality and role depends on what ZUN needs for the plot. Are we really supposed to believe that Reimu is all that studious when she's generally so lazy and easygoing, and had to be pushed into training during SSiB? I just don't find it believable for her to know a good deal about gods and ritual while being so indifferent towards her own deity. It's not congruent in the slightest.

Either way, I was mostly talking about her in regards to her role in Gensokyo, where she comes up pretty short. She makes no proactive efforts to even get to know the various peoples, or to maintain her shrine. All she really knows is how to use violence to solve problems, but gladly remains clueless about everything else.
It's almost as bad as Kasen knowing so little despite ostensibly being a sage.
So while you can make arguments in favor of Reimu having (some) knowledge expected with her role as shrine maiden, I think we can at least agree that to the sages, Reimu is exactly in the position they want her to be, and she mostly serves their interests first and foremost. They've effectively enslaved the Hakurei deity, whose youkai exterminating powers are now only used to keep the youkai's paradise intact.